Word: jesusã
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...indescribable atrocities committed upon Jesus?? increasingly carcass-like body in the initial torture scene are heartbreaking, until the recurring image of the elated torturers flaying mercilessly achieves a somewhat tedious tone. The march in which Jesus bears the cross to the point of his crucifixion is similarly excruciating, but he has one too many dramatic falls for the experience to have a fully realized impact. The wounds that the film inflicts on his audience are rarely left fresh, but exposed for so long that they are allowed to scab over...
...miserably. Simon the Cyrenian emerges as a major hero in the second half of the film. As in the gospels, one of the thieves (yes, a Jew) is seen as a sympathetic figure for his genuine remorse. Just as many Jews were depicted in the film as wishing for Jesus??s death, many were sympathetic to him, simply from the standpoint of watching a man endure a horrible ordeal. Through most of the film, the characters beating him were not Jewish, but Roman. Suggesting that the film makes any commentary on “the Jews?...
Peter C. Mulcahy ’07 said that the Jews were not solely responsible for Jesus??s death in the movie’s depiction...
...good job of making you hate everyone involved,” Mulcahy wrote in an e-mail. “I thought it was generally fair in portraying what the earlier Gospels, not John, do in the Bible—blame all of humanity for these sins and thus Jesus??s substitutional atonement...
...issue is whether Gibson rejects the doctrine enacted by the Second Vatican Council, which absolved the Jews of responsibility for Jesus??s death...